Gnuplot/C2/Error-bars-and-data-fitting/English

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Slide Number 1 Title Slide	Welcome to the tutorial on Error bars and data fitting in gnuplot.
Slide Number 2 Learning Objectives	In this tutorial, we will, Learn to add error bars in a plot Learn about data fitting Write an equation to fit the data Make initial guess for value of the coefficients Fit the dataset to the equation Draw an arrow object in the graph
Slide Number 3 System and Software Requirement	To record this tutorial, I am using, Ubuntu Linux 16.04 Gnuplot 5.2.6 and Gedit 3.18
Slide Number 4 Pre-requisites https://spoken-tutorials.org	To follow this tutorial, Learner must be familiar with the basics of gnuplot. For the prerequisite tutorials, please visit this site.
Slide Number 5 Code files	The input file used in this tutorial is provided in the code file link. Please download and extract the files.
Go to Desktop.	Go to Desktop. I have a, x, y, y-error type data, in a text file.
Hover mouse over x, y and dy columns on the screen for the file.	The first column is x data. The second column is y data. The third column is error in the y data.
Close gedit. Press Ctrl+Alt+T.	Close the file. Open a terminal.
Enter the command cd Desktop . Enter the command gnuplot.	Change the directory to Desktop and open gnuplot.
Press Ctrl+L.	I will clear the screen.
Cursor on the terminal.	Let's plot the data to see the trend.
Enter the command plot 'error-bar.txt' using 1:2:3 with yerrorbars .	Enter the plot command as seen on the screen.
Hover mouse over :3 .	The command, colon 3 with y error bars adds the error to the plot.
Hover mouse over yerrorbars.	If error limits are on the x data, we have to use, x errorbars term for plotting. The graphic window opens.
Hover mouse over decay curve.	Let's fit this graph to an equation.
Cursor on the graph.	Here, the data points are likely to follow an exponential decay.
Hover mouse on the graph.	The points may deviate from an accurate exponential decay. This could be due to measurement errors.
Point mouse next to data.	We will fit the given data points to an exponential decay function.
Cursor on the screen.	Let's see a few steps involved in fitting data points with an equation.
Slide Number 6 Steps for Fitting Data	Define an equation to represent the data. Make initial guess values for the coefficients in the equation. Optimal values for the coefficients is found by an iterative process.
Slide Number 7 Steps for Fitting Data	Check for goodness of the fit A good fitting is measured by a low value of chi square and Display the fitted data with the starting dataset
Type, f(x) = a * exp(-k*x) and press Enter.	First, let's define the function. In the gnuplot prompt, type f of x is equal to a times e to the power minus k x.
Go to graphical window.	Make an educated initial guess for the values of a and k. Go to the graphical window.
Hover mouse near top of y axis.	From the graph, I will place the initial value of a at 1,50,000.
Hover mouse to show ½ decay.	For an exponential decay, I will place the initial guess of k around 0.5 .
Close the graphical window.	Close the graphical window and go to the gnuplot terminal prompt.
Enter the commands, a=150000 k=0.5	Enter commands to set initial guess values. Set a to 150 thousand and k to 0.5 .
Type, fit f(x) ‘xydy.txt’ using 1:2:3 via a,k and press Enter.	To fit the data type the command, fit f of x in single quotes the file name. Here it is error dash bar dot txt. Then using 1 colon 2 colon 3 via a comma k . Here a and k are the coefficients.
Hover mouse over :3 .	We could leave out the colon 3 in the command. Then, errors in the y data are not considered during the data fitting process.
Press Enter. Data fitting is seen on the screen.	Press Enter to run the data fitting algorithm. The coefficients in the equation are optimized by an iterative process. The output is generated on the screen.
Scroll up.	Let's scroll up the screen.
	I see an error warning message on the top.
Hover mouse over the chi square table.	Notice a table with chi square and new values of a and k after each iteration.
Incorporate the number of iterations.	The program reports that, the fitting process converged after 10 iterations.
Hover mouse over final sum of square of residuals.	Many fitting parameters are reported in the output. Program reports, final sum of square of residuals.
Hover mouse over iteration value.	Notice, relative change in values after the last iteration. The number is very small.
Hover mouse over Degrees of freedom.	Degrees of freedom is 9.
Hover mouse over RMS.	RMS of residuals is around 0.17.
Show a and k values on the screen.	Updated values of a and k and their error in estimation is also shown.
Hover mouse over the correlation matrix.	The correlation matrix of variables is at the end of the output.
Cursor on the terminal.	Now we have a function that fits the given data points. Let's plot the data points and function together.
Press Ctrl+L .	I will clear the screen.
Enter the command, plot f(x) lw 2 title 'fitted data', "xydy.txt" using 1:2:3 with yerrorbars pt 7 ps 1.5 notitle .	Enter the command as seen on the screen, to plot both data together. We are plotting the fitted equation fit along with the initial data points.
Hover mouse near the legend.	The fitted data is represented by a line with a line. I am specifying the legend for f of x as fitted data. No legend title is added for the starting data set as no notitle is mentioned.
Show the line on the graphics window. Show symbol with error bar.	Data points are represented by symbols with error bar and without a line style. I have specified a filled circle symbol and 1.5 for point size.
Enter the command, set xrange [0.95:5.05] .	Let's also set x axis limits with set xrange command as seen.
Type replot and press Enter to see the graphics window.	Replot to see the results.
Show this web site address screen shot. http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo/fit.html	Check the gnuplot website for example scripts on data fitting.
Cursor on the screen, around the (1.3,6000) region.	Let’s draw an arrow object in the graph. I want to draw an arrow next to a point in the graph to highlight it.
Move the mouse on the screen to show the arrow placement around (1.63,77200 to 1.7, 62000).	In the graph, I want to add an arrow between these two points.
Highlight in video, the co-ordinates seen on the graph window. (1.63,77200 to 1.7, 62000).	I will note down the coordinates as seen in the graphics window.
Go to the terminal.	Go to the terminal.
Type, set arrow 1 from 1.63,77200 to 1.7, 62000 and press Enter.	Enter the commands as seen on the screen. Here, one is the name I have given for the arrow object.
Type replot and press Enter.	Replot to see the updated result.
Cursor on the graphics window.	I will also add a second arrow in another direction.
Type, set arrow 2 from 1.63,77200 to 1.4, 62000 and press Enter.	Go to the terminal and enter the command as seen on the screen. I will name this arrow as second.
Type replot and press Enter.	Replot to see the updated result.
Cursor on the graphics window.	Now we see two arrows in the graphics window. To remove the object, we have to unset the object.
Type unset arrow first and press Enter.	Go to the terminal. Enter the command, unset arrow first to remove the first arrow.
Type replot and press Enter.	Replot to see the updated result.
Cursor on the graphics window.	The arrow that was named first is now removed from the graphics window,
Close the graphics window. Type quit and press Enter.	Close the graphics window and quit gnuplot.
Slide Number 8 Summary	To summarize, in this tutorial, we learned to Incorporated error bars in a plot graph Fit a given set of data points to an equation Plotted the fitted curve along with parent data Added and removed an arrow object
Slide Number 9 Assignment 1	For the assignment activity, please do the following. For the data file assignment.txt, make an xy graph with xyerrorbars in the graph. This file is available in the Code files link.
Slide Number 9 Assignment 2	Fit the data to a double exponential decay curve with yerrorbars. Plot the fitted data Draw an arrow object in the graph at the position of your choice.
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